Huo Rongdong stepped steadily into the ruins of the Bai family's mansion with a sword in one hand, although she didn't look back, she knew that Qi Ci was not far behind her.

The house is only one entry, with a total of three bedrooms. At this moment, the pillars and walls of the house have been scorched black by the smoke and fire, and the original appearance cannot be seen. But from the celadon water tank that fell to the ground and the half-collapsed carved shadow wall, you can see how noble and elegant the Bai family used to be.

Huo Rongdong covered her nose with one hand, and the poison escaping from the house was like smoke, although she was trapped by Qi Ci's formation, she still felt that her breath was not smooth.

She followed the teachings, and first laid the yellow runes in the four directions of the southeast, northwest, and northwest of the house, only to see the golden light of the rune paper flashing, and there were faint runes floating, which meant that the ghost house was trapped and the ghosts could not escape.

After inspecting around, Huo Rendong had not yet entered the inner room, and suddenly felt a yin wind blowing behind him, and he drilled into his neck coldly.

Subconsciously felt that something was wrong, and when she turned her head, she couldn't help but stiffen.

In the dilapidated hall, among the original gray colors, a bright color appeared, which made people feel creepy.

A red dress embroidered with a lotus flower fluttered in front of him.

The upper body of the bride in red is hidden from the ceiling, her hands hanging flat on the sides of her body, and her long sleeves fluttering to cover her hands, and only a pair of red-soled embroidered shoes can be seen dangling under the skirt.

…… This appearance is like hanging from the beams of the house.

Huo Rongdong took a half step back and clenched the hilt of his sword.

She heard the old people in the village say since she was a child, saying that if someone dies in red, he will become a ghost after death, and he will not be able to extradite and reincarnate, and he must come back to take revenge.

Huo Nindong held her sword and posed, the aura surrounding the tip of her sword, and the breeze blew away the dust and ashes around her. Pieces of burnt cloth curtains swayed from side to side, making the abandoned house ghostly.

"White girl, the past is over, let go of your obsession, don't wander the world anymore."

She waited for her and opened her mouth to persuade, but when she saw the red shoes dangling and shaking in front of her, and shaking-

Thinking of Bai's Cui'e's miserable life experience again, the sword in his hand couldn't stab out.

When it comes to misery, this girl's background is only worse than hers.

Obsession...... I'm afraid it's not that easy to eliminate.

In a moment of pity and distraction, she didn't even notice that the figure of the bride in red had quietly sunk a little, revealing her face hidden by her long hair.

Dark hair, blood-colored clothes, and pale cheeks.

There was not a trace of life in the pupils that showed out behind the long hair, and he looked at her without blinking.

The moment the two sides looked at each other, Huo Rongdong only felt that his eyes were dark and unconscious.

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The world is spinning.

When I woke up again, I was surrounded by the noisy and noisy sounds of many people.

"Convincing or not? is just a down-and-out scholar, and he really thinks of himself as a master! ”

"It's the current champion, it's not like we've never seen it. Just a showman, then you have to kneel down and lift our shoes! ”

"Hahahaha-"

Amid the laughter, several young men dressed in domestic cloth and armed with sticks stood proudly on the wall, behind them the smashed private school firewood door.

One side is strong, the other side is weak. The weak side has only a family of three.

Master Bai is a weak scholar, where has he seen this kind of battle, and his face turned pale with anger: "My family has always been cautious in words and deeds, and has never crossed the line, but your Liu family is too ...... to deceive people."

One of the Ding stood up and scolded: "Shut up! Today we are here to teach you a lesson, our Lord Liu is the city lord appointed by the emperor himself, and he is a big official from the imperial city, you should weigh carefully before speaking. ”

"That's it, Lord Liu has taken a fancy to your daughter, that's the blessing of your Bai family, don't be embarrassed!"

Hearing this, Huo Rendong, who was originally dizzy, suddenly came to his senses.

She looked down and saw that she was wearing a cyan Confucian skirt, which seemed to be shorter, her ten fingers had not done rough work, and the Sunset Sword was not by her side, which was obviously not her hands and feet.

She's ...... Became Bai Cui'e?

Huo Rendong was frightened and wanted to call Qi Ci, but the limbs that did not belong to her did not obey the call at all, and she couldn't even move or speak freely.

- She seemed to be just a bystander shoehorned into this shell.

In the chaotic scene, she heard "herself" speak: "Thanks to Master Liu's love, but the little girl Pu Liu's posture is from a poor and humble background, which is really incompatible." ”

The voice was elegant and beautiful, but Huo Rendong was trapped in the body of a dead man and couldn't move, and was forced to repeat Bai Cui'e's every move before she died, and she broke out in a cold sweat for no reason.

The Liu family's family laughed: "The white girl is too modest, don't toast and don't eat and drink, brothers, what did the master tell before he went out?" ”

"If you don't obey, then smash!"

"It's all smashed!"

More than a dozen men of five size and three thick men rounded their arms and smashed the grass house to pieces with hammers and sticks, and the tables, chairs and benches in the private school were all made of bamboo, and only a pile of ruins was left in a few strokes.

Mr. Bai wanted to go up and grab some books, calligraphy and paintings, but was pushed to the ground by the family members.

There were many private school students and townspeople watching, and a few young students couldn't stand it and wanted to come forward to help, but they were stopped by their families.

"You can't be stupid, then Lord Liu has a way in the imperial city, you don't want to take the imperial examination next year?"

"Don't touch it, it's probably not a good thing."

No matter how the three members of the Bai family pleaded, the townspeople were silent, some didn't go too far, and some even whispered to persuade them not to compete with the powerful, so it was better to send their daughter out.

Seeing that the school was smashed clean, the family members dragged down the door plaque again, and Bai Cui'e's mother threw herself up desperately: "That's the word my father mentioned, stop!" ”

I heard a loud bang, and the wooden door plaque was smashed into two sections, half of which read "White Egret" and half of which read "Academy", and there was a deep chasm in the middle.

Bai Mu was hit on the head by a wooden stick in the hand of one person, rolled her eyes, and fell to the ground softly, with less air in and more air out.

"Mother——!

In the crying, laughter, and shouting, Huo Rongdong looked at all this through Bai Cui'e's eyes.

Not far away is a powerful family with a swaggering toe and trampling on the door plaque of a private school with the sole of his shoe. On the floor are dirty books, broken pen and ink, and broken pains.

Beside him, his father hugged his mother's tears all the time, and he was surrounded by his fathers and fellow villagers who were pointing at him. Their facial features and faces are not clear, only their mouths are constantly opening and closing, overflowing with words and words.

Their family of three became the target of public criticism.

Huo Rongdong felt Bai Cui'e's numbness, which was similar to when she was in Qiushui Town.

It is isolation in the face of power;

It is the powerlessness and anger of the enemy who is strong and I am weak, and the enemy who is outnumbered;

It was a group of people who forced her to the edge of the cliff, and the despair of seeing her obediently jump off.

In the next few days, the Bai family suffered a catastrophe. Bai Mu was smashed with half her life, lying on the bed and hanging with soup; Father Bai cleaned up the follow-up of the private school, dismissed the gentlemen and students, sold the land, and became more and more emaciated day by day.

In addition, the Liu family comes to the door from time to time to find faults.

When Bai Cui'e went out to buy groceries, she was followed by the gangsters in the town, listening to them talk openly behind her.

"I heard that it was the white girl who met Master Liu when she went out to offer incense, and she was willing to be cheap and skillfully seduced, and it became a good thing on the earthen kang in the temple. As a result, because I couldn't negotiate the price code, I didn't want to be a concubine, so I made this scene. ”

"I'll just say, how can a city lord marry a poor woman as a continuation."

"The white girl's voice is like a warbler's song, I don't know if it sounds as good on the kang......"

Huo Rongdong glared angrily, and even wanted to draw her sword out of the sheath, but she couldn't even move her hand.

Now the original owner of the body is Bai Cui'e, a scholarly woman has no power to restrain the chicken at all, and several ruffians on the other side smiled suggestively when they saw her turn around.

Bai Cui'e took the vegetable basket and fled.

Looking at her back, they were still shouting: "Anyway, it's a broken shoe, what kind of shelf is it holding, what's wrong with looking at it twice?" Brothers didn't get started again! ”

"You are rare in the town, don't be a talented girl's spring and autumn dream!"

That night, Huo Rongdong knew that Bai Cui'e was lying beside her mother's bed and cried all night.

Later, rumors spread in the town, and the Bai family became the talk of others after dinner. At first, Bai's father was arguing with people everywhere and wanted to return his daughter's innocence, but then everyone just thought that he had something wrong with his head, and they all began to ridicule him, and no one believed his words.

One day, the matchmakers and maids broke into the house without permission, and without saying a word, Bai Cui'e got up to look at each other.

Some look at the teeth, some look at the arms, and some directly measure the size of the body.

"The butt is too small to give birth."

"The wedding date is just a few days away, and the adults are in a hurry to do it, and there is no need for the girl to sew the wedding dress herself, there are ready-made embroiderers in our house, and it can be completed in two days."

Looking at her haggard father and her dying mother, Bai Cui'e was suddenly tired, and she chose to compromise.

- Compromise to marry a brutal and ruthless old man over sixty years old.

It's just that the matter is not over, the night before the marriage, Mr. Bai found that the etiquette of the wedding ceremony was wrong, and the wife who said that he had agreed to marry became a concubine.

The sedan chair parked in the courtyard is pink, and it is a sedan chair specially carried by a noble family to carry a concubine into the door, which is a huge humiliation for a woman from a good family.

"You, you didn't even think about marrying a serious wife, you are all liars, you want to cheat on my daughter!"

"My Cui'e will never be willing to be a cheap concubine—ah!"

The white father wanted to take his daughter away, but he was knocked to the ground and fainted by a punch from the family.

"Daddy!!"

Bai Cui'e pounced, but four or five matchmakers twisted her arms, and she was tied to the bedside post and couldn't move.

The old matchmaker's eyes lit up: "Plug her mouth, and everything will be fine when you get through the house and enter the door!" ”

"If you do this well, Master Liu will be rewarded."

A group of maids and women looked at her with a smile, some of them stuffed the rough linen into her mouth, and they didn't care about her father, who didn't know anyone on the ground, and a group of people left in a hurry, waiting for the man to pick her up early tomorrow morning.

It was all dark, and the white house was dead silent.

The woman's hands and feet were tied with ropes, and she couldn't speak, and she tried to pick at them with her fingernails and hit her arms.

But until the ten fingers were bloody, the nails were cocked, and the arms were bruised, they couldn't break free from the knots.

She looked at her unconscious white father on the ground, tears flowed down her face, her eyes were bloodshot, and even her lips were worn out by the sackcloth.

And the little girl who was guarding the ear room knocked over the kerosene lamp on her side because of drowsiness......

The fire spread along the wooden structure, and in an instant it was filled with smoke.

……

At the moment before being burned to death by the fire, Huo Rendong suddenly woke up, covered in cold sweat and panting heavily.

A pale and bloodless woman's face was very close to her, and the female ghost in red opened her mouth and stared at her big godless eyes as if she was about to say something. The next moment, the Sunset Sword suddenly released a golden light, shaking away the powerful ghost in front of him.

The ghost of the bride seemed to be afraid of the light of the sword, and quickly disappeared into the darkness in the corner of the house.

Huo Rendong hurriedly played a demon subduing demon and subduing the demon, shaking away the diffuse barrier poison, and then quickly turned around and fled from this dark hall.

As soon as he reached out and pushed the door open, the whole person crashed into a person's arms. Instead of the rough walls, the soft fabric and the solid texture underneath were touched.

At the same time, another person's clear breathing voice drilled into her ears: "What's the matter, are you okay?" ”

Huo Rongdong looked up at Qi Ci, she just wanted to answer, but her face suddenly changed.

She groped her neck up and down with both hands, looking anxious, constantly opening and closing her mouth, but never made a sound.

It's like......

Just like what happened to Bai Cui'e in the dream, she was gagged with a sackcloth and couldn't speak until she died.